Re: Time for NUMA, Embrace your Inner CSP
Yes, in NUMA, every application is required to figure out how to do this, as opposed to having hardware do it.
But NUMA systems are still going to be vulnerable to this sort of thing, absent proactive steps taken by the design team. You have to have some way to manage synchronization. Timing will always matter.
The nice thing about a NUMA system is that if the software gets it wrong, it can be fixed in software. Plus, faults in software are going to be fairly specific to that software. The problem with having hardware second guess what software might do is that it does it the same way no matter what, and if it gets it wrong (like has been reported in this article) it's machine fault that transcends software and cannot be easily fixed. Ooops!
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